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Wise Words: Johnny Carson

Posted on March 24, 2023 by Jill J. Jensen

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

Posted in Quotations, Strategy, Writing | Tagged Johnny Carson, quotation, quote, wise words

Wise Words: Victoria Holt

Posted on March 17, 2023 by Jill J. Jensen

Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.

Posted in Quotations, Strategy, Writing | Tagged quotation, quote, Victoria Holt, wise words

Wise Words: Walter Benjamin

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Jill J. Jensen

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

Posted in Quotations, Strategy, Writing | Tagged quotation, quote, Walter Benjamin, wise words

Wise Words: Carl Sagan: voyage

Posted on March 3, 2023 by Jill J. Jensen

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

Posted in Quotations, Strategy, Writing | Tagged Carl Sagan, quotation, quote, wise words

Wise Words: Charles Peguy

Posted on February 24, 2023 by Jill J. Jensen

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Posted in Quotations, Strategy, Writing | Tagged Charles Peguy, quotation, quote, wise words

Wise Words: Meister Eckhart: erase

Posted on February 17, 2023 by Jill J. Jensen

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Posted in Quotations, Strategy, Writing | Tagged Meister Eckhart, quotation, quote, wise words

Wise Words: Lillian Hellman

Posted on February 10, 2023 by Jill J. Jensen

People change and forget to tell each other.

Posted in Quotations, Strategy | Tagged Lillian Hellman, quotation, quote, wise words

Wise Words: Henry David Thoreau: speak truth

Posted on February 3, 2023 by Jill J. Jensen

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Posted in Quotations, Strategy, Writing | Tagged Henry David Thoreau, quotation, quote, wise words

Wise Words: William Plomer

Posted on January 27, 2023 by Jill J. Jensen

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Posted in Quotations, Strategy, Writing | Tagged quotation, quote, William Plomer, wise words

Wise Words: Isabel Allende

Posted on January 20, 2023 by Jill J. Jensen

Literature has to be believable while real life seldom is.

Posted in Quotations, Writing | Tagged Isabel Allende, quotation, quote, wise words

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